Of course you understand it - you just don't agree with it. If you think of it as ceremonial, it makes more sense. In feudal Japan women were samurai also, though no one (including them) was stupid enough to pretend that they were interchangeable with men. It was a social rank, not a military one. If you imagine a society where clothes make the man and his armor denotes a warrior, a “woman warrior” could easily appear in “armor” that's useless in combat, but this is irrelevant to its true purpose…
As to your mithril mentioned above, some points to ponder:
• Armor may be hard, but you aren't. Wearing metal chainmail directly over bare skin is not only very uncomfortable but will result in truly spectacular bruising.
• Can shapeshift at the command of its wearer? Is insanely valuable? “Stole it? Prove that this is your armor. I don't see your namne on it…” Not any more, certainly. Plus, in the heat of a melee you don't want that armor getting “commands” you didn't intend to give. Is there some way to fix it in form
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By the way, point two above can be solved if you make the armor sentient. Again, in feudal Japan a warrior's sword was not merely a miracle of metallurgy (that alliteration wasn't intentional) but was considered to possess its own soul. Armor which has protected the first-born of the T'lerkhinza clan for five generations is likely to have its own opinions by now - and won't cotton to being stolen, either, which settles that point also.
That's kind of what I meant by "living metal" in fact. I don't know HOW sentient it is, but it IS sentient. But if steel can have properties like that, well, I'm going to lean toward the high end for mithril zivotnikov.
Hmm... looked it up, and mithril is an elven word from Tolkein's books. Damn. Guess I'll have to give it another name after all. I'll probably mix languages for it, like I've done before.
I've decided to go with a bastardization of Czech, call it zivotnikov.
• You can wad a pretty good amount of tinfoil into a baseball size. Work that backwards: Is a baseball lump of mithril going to give you tinfoil armor? It may be good, but that good?
Point. Though it can be used for more than just armor. Swords, shields, and stuff.
The living metal can protect people from bruising, by anticipating blows and reacting appropriately.
“Stole it? Prove that this is your armor. I don't see your namne on it…”
Well, given Lyria's abilities, and Fae abilities, I'll have to change that to "the owner's command." Lyria can make anything so that it will refuse to be useful for a thief. Hell, she could probably make things that would escape a thief and head back to its owner.
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Of course you understand it - you just don't agree with it. If you think of it as ceremonial, it makes more sense. In feudal Japan women were samurai also, though no one (including them) was stupid enough to pretend that they were interchangeable with men. It was a social rank, not a military one. If you imagine a society where clothes make the man and his armor denotes a warrior, a “woman warrior” could easily appear in “armor” that's useless in combat, but this is irrelevant to its true purpose…
As to your mithril mentioned above, some points to ponder:
• Armor may be hard, but you aren't. Wearing metal chainmail directly over bare skin is not only very uncomfortable but will result in truly spectacular bruising.
• Can shapeshift at the command of its wearer? Is insanely valuable? “Stole it? Prove that this is your armor. I don't see your namne on it…” Not any more, certainly. Plus, in the heat of a melee you don't want that armor getting “commands” you didn't intend to give. Is there some way to fix it in form ( ... )
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I've decided to go with a bastardization of Czech, call it zivotnikov.
• You can wad a pretty good amount of tinfoil into a baseball size. Work that backwards: Is a baseball lump of mithril going to give you tinfoil armor? It may be good, but that good?
Point. Though it can be used for more than just armor. Swords, shields, and stuff.
The living metal can protect people from bruising, by anticipating blows and reacting appropriately.
“Stole it? Prove that this is your armor. I don't see your namne on it…”
Well, given Lyria's abilities, and Fae abilities, I'll have to change that to "the owner's command." Lyria can make anything so that it will refuse to be useful for a thief. Hell, she could probably make things that would escape a thief and head back to its owner.
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